Sham Shui Po is a place where the poor are concentrated in Heung Kong, and the population is relatively dense. Many families of five or six are crammed into a house of less than 40 square meters, and they have to put pots and pans outside, and there is no way to make a fire to cook in the room. Densely populated and relatively poor, law and order is not much better.

Generally, if the family living in it has money, the first thing to do is to move out of here, and the old house is either rented or sold. This was the case with Li Xuechu's landlord.

The place where Li Xuechu lives is relatively much better, and it is a decent place to live in this area. It's also relatively easy to find such a place.

It didn't take much time for Xu Fei to find the address and knock on the door. After waiting for long, the door opened, and it was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy who opened the door.

"Who are you looking for?" The boy asked, in Mandarin. Xu Fei lowered his age by two years in his heart, and he was still in the voice change period, he should be thirteen or fourteen years old, and he looked quite tall. The accent is not like that of Taiwanese, it should be a family of 6 intellectuals who immigrated to Xiangjiang, right?

"Excuse me, is Mr. Li Xuechu here?" Xu Fei asked as low as possible, Mandarin he could dictate but not speak.

"I am, may I ask who you are?" Li Xuechu understood, after all, he still made up for a month of Xiangjiang dialect.

Xu Fei was stunned at this time, although he originally thought that the author was a novice, but he felt that he should be at least in his early twenties, but he didn't expect to meet a minor.

"Hello Mr. Li, I am Xu Fei, the editor in charge of Ming Pao." Xu Fei flashed his ID, "Can we talk about it?" ”

After all, he is a well-informed editor, although it is a bit unexpected, but it is not an incredible thing, and there are actually many writers who have become famous at a young age, not to mention that they have only debuted.

"Hello Mr. Xu, please come in and talk." Li Xuechu let Xu Fei into the house.

After the introduction, the two began to talk. A few sentences down is quite troublesome, one can't speak Mandarin and can understand it, the other Xiangjiang dialect has only been learned for less than a month, and the familiar Xiangjiang dialect is limited to some daily communication words and swear words (no matter what dialect, it seems that swear words are the first to learn). Know......

“netg1ish?” Li Xuechu, who was a little impatient, asked tentatively.

“sure.” Xu Fei was even more surprised, in the mainland of 8o years, there are not very few people who can speak foreign languages, but most of them are learning Russian, and there are really not too many people who can speak English.

As a result, the two yellow-skinned Chinese in the Chinese plot were stunned and each spoke Chinese campus English and Cantonese English. Although the way of talking hurts, it is good to be able to communicate smoothly. Li Xuechu secretly made up his mind that he must learn Xiangjiang dialect within three months.

"Mr. Li is from the mainland, when did he come to Xiangjiang?" Xu Fei asked.

"I just got my resident ID card two days ago, and I've been here for about a month."

"Mr. Li looks so young."

"Hehe, it's sixteen this year." Li Xuechu knew what he wanted to ask, "The voice sometimes makes people misunderstood, maybe the vocal cords are late." ”

"That's right." Xu Fei accepted this answer, and it was not very strange to delay it for a year or two. If you are a minor, you need a guardian to sign a contract, which will be more troublesome.

This is also the reason why Li Xuechu insisted that he was sixteen years old at that time, saying that he was twenty-nine must not be believed, and there were all kinds of inconveniences when he was young. Until now, Li Xuechu can't figure out what is going on with his body, so he can only leave the problem to time, I hope it's okay. Anyway, rejuvenation is still a good thing, but some things are inconvenient to do.

After a few small talks, the conversation began to turn to the work. Things like how did you come up with the idea to write an article on this kind of subject, and where did the idea come from? Li Xuechu felt that he was back at the immigration office a few days ago, and he could only use his low emotional intelligence to cope with it. Fortunately, I just asked a little bit so far, and the topic shifted to some deficiencies and some improvements in the article, which are what Li Xuechu needs the most. Then there was an exchange on the characteristics of serialized novels in newspapers and magazines, and it was actually Xu Fei who said that Li Xuexue had heard it for the first time, but he really needed these experiences, and he listened very carefully.

In general, it is necessary to have a cool point, and don't make too much foreshadowing to challenge the patience of readers, and the patience of many readers is not very good. As for the impact on the structure of the novel, it can be corrected when the novel is published separately and so on. Xu Fei was a little embarrassed when he said this, but Li Xuechu felt that it was nothing, wasn't the online text of later generations also this routine?

Next up is the meat dish: signing negotiations.

Xu Fei told Li Xuechu that Ming Pao was generally satisfied with this article, but the Ming Pao Morning Post featured Ni Ma's Wesley series of novels, and Li Xuechu's novels were published in the Ming Pao Evening News, which Li Xuechu said he had no opinion on. Ni Maan's novels are currently relatively popular, and if you have other positions, you can't fight with him, it's not cost-effective.

Then there is the remuneration, Xu Fei proposed an offer of 30 yuan for 1,000 words, Li Xuechu thought it was okay, but it should be higher. So he tentatively asked if forty yuan for a thousand words would work, and Xu Fei didn't think long before agreeing. This made Li Xuechu feel a little regretful: Why did you ask for such a low price? The sky-high asking price should be repaid on the spot, and it should be reported to Gaoli.

But I'm embarrassed to regret what I said, so I'll review it slowly in the future. A revised delivery date for the manuscript was agreed. About 100,000 words, 40 words is about 4,000 yuan, and Xu Fei left 1,000 yuan as a deposit. Each signed the contract, and the signing was completed, which took less than 20 minutes.

Probably because the work was completed and he relaxed, Xu Fei's conversation became more interesting. I talked to Li Xuechu about this novel again.

"At that time, when I looked at the manuscript, I felt that the writing was not very good, but now that I see Mr. Li, compared with Mr. Li's age, I think the writing is still good, and some liberal arts students in their early twenties are not necessarily better than Mr. Li's writing."

"Hehe," Chi Guoguo's slap in the face, doesn't this mean that I have lived for more than ten years in vain? "Don't want Mr. Li, Mr. Li, Mr. Xu can call me directly to Xuechu or Xiao Li."

"That's right, then I'll call you junior high, and don't call me Mr. Xu, I'm a few years older than you, if you don't dislike it, call me Brother Fei."

"Hehe, I'll ask Fei Ge Duo for advice in the future, I've just entered the industry, and I don't know a lot of things."

After some politeness, Xu Fei also sincerely informed him of many matters that need to be paid attention to in the industry, which benefited Li Xuechu a lot.

"Newspaper serialization is actually just a small amount of money," Xu Fei also saw Li Xuechu's dissatisfaction with the manuscript fee, "In fact, as a writer, the most important thing is to have good works, and the majority of the profits in the future will also be on the royalties of the publication of the works." When the novel is published, the contract is the key, and the royalty is based on the sales of the novel, which is the key. ”

"Royalties?"

"Actually, it shouldn't be called royalties, strictly speaking, it should be copyright royalties. Generally speaking, if the work is favored by the publisher to be published, the publisher will negotiate with the author itself, which is generally divided into two types: copyright buyout and royalty royalty. If you are not confident in the sales of the work, it will be more cost-effective to buy it directly with money, so that the copyright belongs to the publisher, and if you want to retain the copyright, then choose the second option. ”

Xu Fei continued: "The most important thing for you now is to improve your writing and more good ideas. Writing is something that needs to be slowly accumulated and improved by practicing more, and creativity, I can't give much substantive advice, I can only say to improve my reading, get in touch with some good works, and read intensively. Then you usually observe more details in life, and see more and more details, so that you will have some things that you can't usually see or are ignored. And some of the ideas in a good work, if you get in touch with it deeply, will also have a good inspiration for you. In fact, there are many people who write well, and many people are unable to break through the second point. ”

"Creativity" Li Xuechu is "not lacking", although in fact, they are all other people's things, and he is just an unknown plagiarist. But since he plans to enter this industry, Li Xuechu still hopes to have some things of his own, it seems that there is no good way, learn more and practice more. With the amount of writing and knowledge I have now, there is no pressure to write a light-hearted and funny essay. But if you really want to write something more profound, or write a long novel to construct a virtual world, it is powerless to fill in all aspects of knowledge. Even if I've read the original book, strictly speaking, I've never read even a single work.

Forget it, let's take our time with these things in the future, anyway, it's a good start.

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